· Private foundation
James E & John a Keyes Families Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ST MARY VISITATION PARISH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION OF THE HOLY CROSS | $1,000 |
| NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH | $1,000 |
| LOVE ONE ANOTHER CAMPAIGN - ARCHDIOCESE | $1,000 |
| WAUKESHA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WI | $1,000 |
| OUR LADY OF NEW MELLERAY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +13%- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +4%
- FMFroedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital Foundation Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISONone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -19%
- TATHE ARCHDIOCES OF MILWAUKEEone grant, 2022 · $1k
- LOLOVE ONE ANOTHER CAMPAIGNone grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James E & John a Keyes Families Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James E & John a Keyes Families Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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